Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating a personal PD plan is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.
Reflect on your teaching so far. Choose one area that you know you need to strengthen. Use this area to list 1-3 needs that might serve as
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
More content knowledge
The more knowledge I have on the subjects the more content I can share with my students. Help to push my higher achieving students to a higer level
Increase necap scores
Ribts 1.1
2.
More valid assessments
Give the students a better more valid idea of their standing in the subject.
Ribts 9.2, 9.5
3.
Increasing lessons with more modifications for students with special needs.
To help students with special needs to begin to climb to a higher level by modifying lessons for them. It will help their confidence and allow them to slowly catch up to their classmates.
Ribts 3.3, 4.1, 4.2
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below describe you goal and plan in two paragraphs.
In the first paragraph, describe a rationale your professional development goal. This rationale should describe the goal, the personal need that it will address, and how this goal benefits your students and your perspective school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My goals of improoving modifications for students with special needs, as well as the improovement of valid assesments. I will improove through trial and evaluation of my assesments and lessons. No lesson or assement goes without critical thinking on how well it worked, and how it can be improoved. I make comments and save them to my lesson plans for future refrence. If I notice something could be changed on a worksheet I will make the change immidiatly for the next year. Students deserve fair assesments so they can recieve fair grades. If questions are not clear or not fair they will become discouraged. Modifications are important because no two students are the same. Some have special needs that need to be coinsidered before giving a lesson.
Ribts 9.2, 9.5, 1.1
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
I often find myself struggling in being creative or finding ways to accomdate my learners with special needs. I think training sessions and workshops could hep inspire me with ideas and techniques to find ways to accomodate. I often worry that I also dont know about many of the special needs. I have a good idea about a few special needs and accomodations, but could get a better understanding of many more types of special needs my students may have. I also can ask collegues with much more expirences to assist me with ideas to better my knowledge and skill as a teacher.
Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating a personal PD plan is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below describe you goal and plan in two paragraphs.
In the first paragraph, describe a rationale your professional development goal. This rationale should describe the goal, the personal need that it will address, and how this goal benefits your students and your perspective school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My goals of improoving modifications for students with special needs, as well as the improovement of valid assesments. I will improove through trial and evaluation of my assesments and lessons. No lesson or assement goes without critical thinking on how well it worked, and how it can be improoved. I make comments and save them to my lesson plans for future refrence. If I notice something could be changed on a worksheet I will make the change immidiatly for the next year. Students deserve fair assesments so they can recieve fair grades. If questions are not clear or not fair they will become discouraged. Modifications are important because no two students are the same. Some have special needs that need to be coinsidered before giving a lesson.
Ribts 9.2, 9.5, 1.1
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
I often find myself struggling in being creative or finding ways to accomdate my learners with special needs. I think training sessions and workshops could hep inspire me with ideas and techniques to find ways to accomodate. I often worry that I also dont know about many of the special needs. I have a good idea about a few special needs and accomodations, but could get a better understanding of many more types of special needs my students may have. I also can ask collegues with much more expirences to assist me with ideas to better my knowledge and skill as a teacher.